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In a finding that challenges the increasingly popular belief that smoking marijuana is less harmful to health than smoking tobacco, researchers in Canada are reporting that smoking marijuana, like smoking tobacco, has toxic effects on cells

Smoking both tobacco and marijuana increases the risk of respiratory symptoms and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), found a study in CMAJ. Smoking only marijuana, however, was not associated with increased risks.

Smoking cigarettes is not only the principle cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but it may change the body's immune responses to bacteria that commonly cause exacerbations of the disease, according to new research in a mouse model.

A previously unrecognized group of air pollutants could have effects remarkably similar to harmful substances found in tobacco smoke. Inhaling those pollutants exposes the average person up to 300 times more free radicals daily than from smoking one cigarette, they added.

By Maddalena Jackson, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jun. 25--As the Sacramento area settled into what promises to be a week of hazy air, more attention was being paid to what that could mean in terms of health.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Marijuana growers gathered in
Europe's pot-smoking capital on Sunday for a trade show that is
taking on the trappings of a major industry fair, complete with
scantily clad models, glossy brochures and, of course, samples.